Re: Thread DIES [Re: ssh - are you nuts?!? ]

2000-12-30 Thread opentrax
On 29 Dec, Wes Peters wrote: Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:04:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Fumerola, who states that security policy information is un-available. However, I might refer his comment to the Security Officer instead,

Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-30 Thread opentrax
On 28 Dec, Mark Murray wrote: Okay, can you be specific about what you mean by "There was a time that we were very lax". If there was a change of server identity, then we did not necessarily announce what the new identity was in a way that people could trust. These days, a member of

console.h mouse.h

2000-12-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
If you know little (or even larger ones) programs that could demonstrate console.h (consio,kbio,fbio) and/or mouse.h could you mail/reply here? I already found aumix. (I'm writing a small article. I found out a lot myself and via the manpages, but some things don't work (and a working

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-30 Thread Julian Elischer
John Baldwin wrote: On 28-Dec-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Walter W. Ho p" writes: Hi all, I was wondering how to increase the robustness of the booting process, so that a box would be able to keep itself on its feet without intervention of the

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-30 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:56:57AM +1300, David Preece wrote: At 10:12 28/12/00 -0700, you wrote: Lastly, search for quiet fans from a large supplier. http://www.quietpc.com/ I haven't bought any stuff from them, yet, so I can't vouch other than for their existence. I have. For 100

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
This is used successfullly in the thousands of interjets out there in the field. Unfortunatly the new bootblock writers never considered this an important enough feature to emulate. but it gives you a place to look. One of the "new bootblock authors" actually commented on this thread,

Re: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2000-12-30 Thread Russell L. Carter
Bingo! Thanks guys! Russell %John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: % In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], % Russell L. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % On a fairly recent -STABLE I am getting this failure: % % ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033 % % I

AMD PM driver finally there!

2000-12-30 Thread Matthew C. Forman
OK, I've finally got there with the AMD pm/smbus driver. It's now newbus, though this was quite a weird experience. In the end, I found that my BIOS wasn't giving out any I/O resource information for the AMD 756's power management function, hence bus_alloc_resource failed. A bus_set_resource

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
the current ideas all fail badly in the face of 'a' partition filesystem corruption. Very true. I also looked at the CMOS scratchpad registers... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to

Re: Easy way to recover disk

2000-12-30 Thread Aleksandr A.Babaylov
Warner Losh writes: The only thing I couldn't figure out how to do was to mount the file. Since I grabbed the disk partition, I wasn't sure I could just use vnconfig since there was no FreeBSD label on that partition. vnconfig -s labels /dev/vn... -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To

Re: Easy way to recover disk

2000-12-30 Thread Matt Dillon
:In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jacob :writes: :: Isn't this what the Linux badblocks program is for? Why don't you take that :: and find a way to feed this into badsect(8)... : :I thought the linux badblocks program found bad blocks and keep the :user from using them. I want to read the

Re: Easy way to recover disk (fwd)

2000-12-30 Thread Mark Hittinger
:I thought the linux badblocks program found bad blocks and keep the :user from using them. I want to read the entire disk and the parts :that don't read I want to try again later to see if I can maybe get :lucky. The linux program creates a data file which the fsckext program uses to

Re: make(1) -DREMOTE?

2000-12-30 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:01:33AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: So, I'm wondering who uses it, and what purpose it serves. There is nothing in the manpage about this "feature". So from general consensus, people who desire this functionality can get it from ports/devel/pmake and the